Whole Foods is a giant corporation, but the perception that they were the leader was manageable. The reality is that Kroger is. Yes, just a regular supermarket. The wealthy elites who embraced organic food early on will need to move onto another fad if they want to maintain that self-identification.

Big Organic is trying to maintain its elite Health Halo status while advocating that poor people should eat more of it - and that is not easy. Whole Foods is trying to move from wealthy liberal neighborhoods to more mainstream ones - using lower pricing.

So while Kroger adopted organic like Whole Foods, Whole Foods wants to become more like Kroger.

There is often a belief that by kooky anti-science activists that corporations are engaged in some vast conspiracy, but the actions of Kroger and Whole Foods show that they really have no clue what they are doing, they are all just chasing trends after the fact.

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